Commentary

Britain may be down, brought low by the mad cow disease, but it is strong enough to deal with rebell

Earlier this year, Congress passed and President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996,

Raising the minimum wage is popular politically, especially when corporate salaries are soaring. But

To overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin signed the Belovezhye Accord and dissolved the Soviet

Large pay increases for top corporate executives in the United States have stirred stinging criticis

A tiny piece of this city died not long ago. Brentano's Fifth Ave. bookstore, which opened at the be

Russia will elect a new president soon, but the biggest campaign issue so far is not the recreation

I want to make a few points about the general reasons why we all worked so hard to create the Urugua

When the Commerce Department announced last month that the American work force had grown by 700,000

A week before reappointing Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve chairman, Bill Clinton released a provo

ETHANOL SUBSIDIESDON'T ROB ROAD FUNDHighway Users Alliance President William Fay eloquently

House Republicans used their control over a bill implementing a global shipbuilding treaty to ensure

A WORLD TURNEDUPSIDE DOWNSo, the new buzzword is ''upsizing'' in lieu of ''downsizing!'' The

Neatness counts.Fair or not, this is one of life's truisms. And as the ocean container shipp

Trade is freer today than it has ever been, but the ships that move most traded goods are built in h

A critical feature of President Clinton's trade policy has been an emphasis on monitoring and enforc

''I have seen America spread out from th' Atlantic to th' Pacific, with a branch office iv th' Stand

As Europe's statesmen gather in Turin for an Intergovernmental Conference devoted to constitutional

Western Hemisphere trade ministers met in Cartagena, Colombia, last week to discuss the Free Trade A

BRITAIN, THE CRADLE of parliamentary democracy, suffered another blow Wednesday when the European hu

Last month, Hungarian Prime Minister Gyula Horn invited experts of Hungarian background from around

A STORM IS GATHERING in the corridors of Washington. In the eye of it is not the balanced budget or

They are the most important international trade talks taking place this year, and they are flounderi

DEERE'S EXPORTS NOTTHREATENED BY MARADThere have been times when I felt the views and action

STATES WON a significant victory in the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, which ruled Congress cannot ex

It ''strikes a blow at the heart of this nation's vital defenses against unfair trade and the U.S. c

ONE-STOP SHOPPING is a watchword in most industries - most, that is, except financial services. Bank

As Bob Dole wins the Republican nomination, he may look back on the South Carolina primary as the tu

President Clinton boasts that under his administration U.S. economic performance has been the best i

FOR THE FIRST TIME in 68 years, the United States is introducing a totally redesigned $100 bill in a

No doubt the old boys in Zhongnanhai, the Beijing enclave where much of China's leadership lives, wo

PRIVATE CAPITAL is flowing to the developing countries at levels never seen before. Not surprisingly

According to a new report from literacy experts, ''evidence suggests that students today read better

IN ONE OF THE LEAST SURPRISING developments of the year, the AFL-CIO officially endorsed Bill Clinto

Nearly everyone agrees high-technology industries - computer hardware and software, telecommunicatio

JONES ACT: TAKEA CLOSE LOOKOne of the criticisms of the Jones Act is the cost of American ci

Earlier this month, Russia's lower house of parliament voted to recreate the Soviet Union. The rush

NOW THAT TAIWAN'S PRESIDENT, Lee Teng-hui, has won a resounding victory at the polls, the government

BRITISH CUISINE'S reputation, already tarnished by such culinary travesties as bangers and mash and

In 1896, William Jennings Bryan mesmerized the Democratic Party convention with his famous ''Cross o